The Eagles officially placed guard Landon Dickerson on injured reserve Tuesday and they pulled a player up from the practice squad in a corresponding move.
Wide receiver Britain Covey has been signed to the 53-man roster in Philadelphia. Covey played in Week 1 as a temporary elevation and returned four punts for 37 yards in the 24-22 win over the Commanders.
Covey appeared in 44 other games for the Eagles over the past four seasons. He has a career average of 11.2 yards per punt return.
The Eagles also announced that they have signed tight end Josiah Deguara to the practice squad. They still have one open spot on the 53-man roster after placing tight end Eli Stowers on injured reserve last weekend.
The Eagles will be making a change on their offensive line for Week 2.
Left guard Landon Dickerson was placed on injured reserve on Monday and the team’s plans for moving forward without him were a topic of discussion at offensive coordinator Sean Mannion’s press conference on Tuesday. Drew Kendall and Willie Lampkin are the top backup options on the interior of the line and Mannion expressed belief in any direction the Eagles might take.
“We feel really confident with all of our guys,” Mannion said, via a transcript from the team. “It’s unfortunate with Landon, the guy’s a warrior, and we’ve got to get him healthy. In the meantime, we need guys to step up, but Drew’s had a really nice camp. Willie’s had a nice camp. Really, we have a lot of guys on our offensive line with a lot of position flexibility, versatility. We feel good about all of them. Obviously, Landon will be missed in the meantime, but we feel confident that guys are going to be able to step up and fill the void.”
Kendall played center in college and Lampkin has also worked there, which accounts for the versatility that Mannion talked about as an asset. He was asked if moving center Cam Jurgens to guard is on the table.
“We’re going to keep that in-house in terms of what our plan is for this week, just for competitive reasons,” Mannion said. “Like I said, we have a lot of guys up front that can play multiple spots. We’ve been training them at all spots, so gives us some flexibility there.”
Dickerson said Monday that he was “a complete liability” in Sunday’s win over the Commanders and the line was inconsistent as a whole in the opener. Dickerson’s health likely factored into that and the Eagles could wind up sounder if they pick the right alignment for the Titans.
The Eagles will place left guard Landon Dickerson on injured reserve with a knee injury.
Dickerson appeared on WIP’s “Players Lounge Show” as news hit that he was headed to IR with what he described as a bone bruise in his right knee.
He said he “played like shit” in the Eagles’ 24-22 win over the Commanders on Sunday.
“I was a complete liability yesterday,” Dickerson said, via Alexis Chassen of bleedinggreennation.com. “Again, that was my fault. I know I said earlier in camp I shouldn’t be out there until I feel healthy. A few weeks ago, [I] got rolled up on in practice. I thought as weeks went by it would get better. It didn’t, and we kind of went out there and finally got some imaging on it today, figured out what was wrong with it.
“Really the best plan going forward is to put me on IR, so I can get this thing better to have a good stretch at the back end of the season versus kind of what happened last year, go out there limping through 18 weeks. I don’t think anyone wants to see that again because that was just ugly. I don’t want to do that again, because that was just some BS.”
Dickerson underwent surgery in August 2025 to repair an injured meniscus and appeared in 15 games, though he later admitted he could have used more rehab time. He went to Columbia for stem cell therapy this offseason.
Drew Kendall, a fifth-round pick in 2025, could replace Dickerson.
Eagles guard Landon Dickerson will miss at least the next four weeks.
Dickerson is going on injured reserve, according to Jeff McLane of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
In Sunday’s opener against the Commanders, Dickerson had a rough day in pass protection, although Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni praised his run blocking. Although the exact nature of Dickerson’s injury has not been reported, it appears Dickerson was playing through something, and he and the team have now decided he needs at least a month to get healthy.
Dickerson said this offseason that he has rethought his approach to playing through injuries, although he denied talk that he was thinking about retiring because of the physical toll that football has taken on his body.
The 27-year-old Dickerson was a second-round pick of the Eagles in 2021 and is a three-time Pro Bowler.
The Eagles will likely go with either Drew Kendall or Willie Lampkin at left guard while Dickerson is out.
Wide receiver Hollywood Brown was active for Sunday’s game, but the veteran never got on the field during the Eagles’ 24-22 win over the Commanders.
DeVonta Smith and Dontayvion Wicks started for the Eagles with first-round pick Makai Lemon and Darius Cooper also seeing time on offense. At a Monday press conference, head coach Nick Sirianni was asked about how Brown fits into the team’s plans.
“So, with yesterday, you know, we have our rotations that we’re doing, you know, Hollywood could obviously help us,” Sirianni said, via Brooks Kubena of TheAthletic.com. “We obviously want to get him into the football game because his speed is real. It just didn’t work out that way yesterday. There are games like that. There are games where you get shut out on catches. Unfortunately, there are games, they get shut out on reps. But we know that Hollywood can help us win football games, and his speed is real, and, quite frankly, just from my end, we want to get him into the football game, right? And so, you know, we’ll make a better effort to do that next time, ‘cause I know the playmaking ability that he can bring with his speed. But was pleased with how the wideouts played as a whole. Of course, there were things that you want back. They made a lot of plays down the field — and with different things with their job description. But, you know, I do want to see him in that football game and getting reps and contributing to this football team.”
The Eagles’ offense looked like a work in progress for considerable portions of Sunday’s game, which was their first with offensive coordinator Sean Mannion. Quarterback Jalen Hurts engineered enough big plays to overcome the rough spots and we’ll see if Brown fits into the Week 2 plan to create more of them.
